‘Teenagers pushed us too far’: Patient neighbors reach their limit after months of teenage craze and a late-night fence break-in, and get the family nearly evicted by texting the landlord a time-stamped video compilation – FAIL Blog

The escalation here follows a very recognizable pattern. Every time the neighbors extended patience, the teenagers treated it as confirmation that nothing had any consequences. Loud music became tipsy friends chasing cars at midnight, which became the same tipsy friends returning the next night, which became a rotating cast of devoted delinquent boys leaning on cars every few afternoons, which eventually became someone breaking through a fence at night and sprinting through garbage cans to avoid a ten-foot drop into the woods. Each step of the way, the mom got a text, offered an apology, and then resumed her schedule of being somewhere else.